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		<title>Memoirs From Torchlight: Developers Are People Too?</title>
		<link>http://mikebbetts.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/memoirs-from-torchlight-developers-are-people-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[blizzard]]></category>
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		<title>Memoirs From Torchlight: A Satisfying Spectacle</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Betts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Game Diaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diablo]]></category>
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		<title>Classic Studies: Super Metroid &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<link>http://mikebbetts.wordpress.com/2009/05/24/classic-studies-super-metroid-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 20:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Betts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial Theses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[metroid prime hunters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[samus aran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[super metroid]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Super Metroid plays out similarly to Metroid&#8211;so similarly, in fact, that intrepid players will instantly recognize certain iconic hallways. A Metroid veteran will know exactly where to find that morph ball power-up. But it is homage rather than retread and maintains continuity long enough for the veterans to realize that the Zebes they knew only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikebbetts.wordpress.com&blog=3931392&post=433&subd=mikebbetts&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Velvet Assassin</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 14:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Betts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Game Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Velvet Assassin falls short of its grandiose attempts to solemnize the Second World War. When it comes to the stealth genre, however, Velvet Assassin aims low &#8211; and hits the mark.
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		<title>Classic Studies: Super Metroid &#8211; Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 05:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Betts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[1914]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Super Metroid is one of the best games ever made. What does that make Metroid? Turns out, nothing more than a good idea. First part in a three parter, taking us to our roots, to the classic, and to its legacy.
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		<title>Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 17:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Betts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Game Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Dark Athena is, like Butcher Bay, a strange mix. A lot of the game is about making your way through guard-filled rooms using little more than shadows and your knives. Most of the time, the game even has enough sense to deprive you of guns entirely, as tempting as it might be for a first-person [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikebbetts.wordpress.com&blog=3931392&post=406&subd=mikebbetts&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Building a Game, Not a Message</title>
		<link>http://mikebbetts.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/building-a-game-not-a-message/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Betts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Resident Evil 5 isn&#8217;t racist, but there&#8217;s more at work here than &#8220;Is it or isn&#8217;t it?&#8221; How does Resident Evil 5 undermine its own anti-colonial message, and why does it? The answer is simpler than you think. And more frustrating.&#8221;
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		<title>The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Betts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Game Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Escape from Butcher Bay, on the other hand, is not certain what it wants to be, and this lack of confidence proves to be its downfall. What could have been a classic becomes a period piece, a game we will look at one day and say, “Wow, look what it did!” &#8211; but not play.&#8221;
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		<title>Beyond Good &amp; Evil</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Betts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Beyond Good &#38; Evil seemed doomed to cult status from the start. It had all the hallmarks: a science fiction story rife with political themes, an alien invasion, and a conspiracy or two. Some may also argue it starred an unusual protagonist, Jade, whose distinguishing characteristic as a female video game protagonist was that she [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikebbetts.wordpress.com&blog=3931392&post=400&subd=mikebbetts&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Age of Empires II</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Betts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Age of Empires II was a critical success after release. It doesn&#8217;t work so well anymore, and it&#8217;s hard to forgive its flaws for being simply &#8220;an older game.&#8221;
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